"Dear Mr. Whitton,
Based on the side events schedule that has been published by the CBD, it would appear the first week will be especially busy with NGO events and right before the high-level segment. There are many events going on, and it really…"
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Eric Hartley Johnston posted a blog postKyoto Journal special issue, ``Biodiversity: Japan's Satoyama and Our Shared Future''
Kyoto Journal, a Kyoto-based quarterly magazine, will publish a special issue on biodiversity and Japan's Satoyama Initiative that will be discussed at COP10. You can learn more about the issue at http://cop10.org/ See More
Mike Shanahan commented on Eric Hartley Johnston's blog post Dateline Nagoya: A Japan-based Journalist's Guide to COP10 (Reposting)"Hi Eric
Thanks for this information. I will be in Nagoya for the last 6-7 days of the COP. There's a new group here for being going to the conference.
Cheers
Mike"
Eric Hartley Johnston posted a blog postDateline Nagoya: A Japan-based Journalist's Guide to COP10 (Reposting)
Greetings to one and all. The purpose of this occassional blog is to provide information to those of you who plan to be at COP10 on a variety of logistical details related to Nagoya and Japan and, where possible, analysis of what role the Japanese government and Japanese NGOs are likely to play as hosts.Future blogs will include things like (1) cost estimates for getting to Nagoya, and around; (2) what local NGO groups are doing; (3) how to cover the world's most expensive country as cheaply as…See More
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- Eric
- What is your job title?
- Deputy Editor
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- The Japan Times
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- www.ericjohnston.net
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- Access and benefit sharing, Biodiversity targets, CBD negotiations, Climate change, Endangered species, Forests, Invasive species, Oceans, Poverty and biodiversity, Protected areas, Traditional knowledge, Urban biodiversity, Wetlands
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- I have two decades of experience in Japan as a journalist/newspaper reporter. I currently work for The Japan Times, the country's oldest and largest English-language paper. I covered the 1997 Kyoto Protocol Conference, the 2009 Copenhagen Accord conference, and will head our paper's coverage of the COP10 meeting in Nagoya.
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Kyoto Journal special issue, ``Biodiversity: Japan's Satoyama and Our Shared Future''
Kyoto Journal, a Kyoto-based quarterly magazine, will publish a special issue on biodiversity and Japan's Satoyama Initiative that will be discussed at COP10. You can learn more about the issue at http://cop10.org/
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 17:09
Dateline Nagoya: A Japan-based Journalist's Guide to COP10 (Reposting)
Greetings to one and all. The purpose of this occassional blog is to provide information to those of you who plan to be at COP10 on a variety of logistical details related to Nagoya and Japan and, where possible, analysis of what role the Japanese government and Japanese NGOs are likely to play as hosts.
Future blogs will include things like (1) cost estimates for getting to Nagoya, and…
Posted on June 1, 2010 at 16:00 — 1 Comment
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